We keep track of when the London Institute is reported in the press and on major blogs and podcasts. This includes pieces about our activities and members as well as the Institute itself—but not about specific research papers, which are covered in Discoveries in the news.
Science history29 Sep
Faraday’s masterclass
In The Oldie, our writer Thomas Hodgkinson celebrates the Royal Institution’s Friday Evening Discourses, the world’s oldest science talks.
Science history18 Sep
Friday night live
In the Idler, our writer Thomas Hodgkinson pays tribute to the Royal Institution’s Friday Evening Discourses, which turn 200 this year.
Physics & maths16 Jul
Langlands unlocked
The geometric Langlands proof brings mathematicians a step closer to a grand unified theory, Ananyo Bhattacharya writes in a Nature feature.
Artificial Intelligence11 Jun
A Fields Medal for AI?
The Financial Times features Prof. Yang-Hui He in a piece highlighting the potential impact of future AI models on academic mathematicians.
Philanthropy8 Jun
Rebel with a cause
Ben Delo talks to Thomas Hodgkinson in Perspective about beating Asperger’s, smoking the competition and why he likes the London Institute.
AI-assisted maths21 May
Talking murmurations
Prof. Yang-Hui He discusses AI breakthroughs in mathematics with podcaster Curt Jaimungal–including his work on the murmuration conjecture.
Science funding3 Apr
My passion for maths
In a piece in The Spectator, the entrepreneur and philanthropist Ben Delo explains why he is funding a Fellowship at the London Institute.
AI-assisted maths2 Jan
The AI mathematician
On the Theories of Everything podcast, Prof. Yang-Hui He explains how machine learning is helping to revolutionise mathematical discovery.
Russia & Ukraine1 Nov 2024
Re-ordering Russia
Mikhail Khodorkovsky talks to Thomas Hodgkinson in The Times about the future of Russia and why he funds research at the London Institute.
Physics & maths4 Sep 2024
From physics into maths
Why are physical insights from the real world proving so useful for solving abstruse problems in pure mathematics, Ananyo Bhattacharya asks.
Org intelligence 29 Aug 2024
Spreading the word
In the Harvard Business Review, our trustee Martin Reeves and co-authors explain how ‘evolvable scripts’ greatly improve knowledge-sharing.
Science funding15 Aug 2024
Life of Riley
The Times' science editor interviews our Trustee, actress Talulah Riley, about her love of physics and her work with the London Institute.
Creativity13 Apr 2024
Talking is thinking
Talking engages robust muscles of thought—not least when mathematicians take their problems to the blackboard, argues Thomas Hodgkinson.
Creativity18 Mar 2024
Creative convergence
The advertising guru Graham Fink waxes lyrical about equations and working with the London Institute on the How Do You Feel Today? podcast.
Geometry29 Feb 2024
Geometry’s dominion
Following his popular Discourse, Yang-Hui He joins writer Madeleine Hall to talk about the mysteries of geometry on the Ri Science podcast.
Russia & Ukraine20 Feb 2024
Security and freedom
A Bloomberg piece names our Arnold & Landau Fellowships as one of the few programmes offering help to Russian and Ukrainian scientists.
Russia & Ukraine22 May 2023
The language of maths
A piece in The Times explains how, thanks to our Arnold and Landau Fellowships, theorists divided by war can find a common denominator.
Science history4 Apr 2023
What are the chances?
In The Spectator, our writer Madeleine Hall hails John Venn, who pioneered not only Venn diagrams but also frequentist probability.
Science history14 Mar 2023
The big bang
A century ago, in our rooms in Mayfair, Sir James Dewar died. Our writer Thomas Hodgkinson pays tribute to the inventor of cordite in Nautilus.
Evolvability1 May 2022
Death, be not proud
The Washington Post explains how man's mad search for immortality is getting serious in our cell programming collaboration with bit.bio.
Physics & maths12 Jun 2021
Challenging Times
In The Times, the paper's science editor Tom Whipple reports on the London Institute's list of the 23 Mathematical Challenges for our time.
Physics & maths17 Dec 2020
A singular mind
In an interview with Thomas Fink, Sir Roger Penrose talks about his Nobel Prize, the beauty of physics—and why AI is nothing to fear.
Cell coding13 Nov 2020
LIMS-bit.bio
Forbes explains how the London Institute, working with the biologists at bit.bio, may revolutionise our understanding of human life.
Cell coding27 Oct 2020
LIMS-bit.bio
The Times welcomes the collaboration between London Institute mathematicians and the biologists at bit.bio to crack cell reprogramming.
Cell coding22 Oct 2020
Maths, meet biology
Verdict reports on the collaboration between the London Institute and cell coding company bit.bio to decode the operating system of life.
Science funding30 Jan 2020
Taking back research
In today’s Science|Business, the London Institute welcomes the prospect of a UK DARPA and calls for shorter turn-around times for funding.
Physics & maths1 Apr 2019
Sage of discovery
British Airways’ inflight magazine runs a three-page profile of the London Institute, its founder and its new approach to doing science.